Scratched Tooth
@keencritic.bsky.social
Superfan of Sondheim stuff, big fan of musical theatre in general. Lover of family, cats, reading, travel, pilpul. Tend to get overwrought. Also, Lord, I am affected by a bald patch.
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Can someone please at least turn the CAPS LOCK off his phone? Thx.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Can someone please at least turn the CAPS LOCK off his phone? Thx.
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Trump administration has released a official readout on the Geneva peace talks. Rubio, Envoy Witkoff, Kushner, and Driscoll met with Ukraine’s delegation to review the peace deal. Ukraine confirmed that its key concerns, security, sovereignty, economic recovery, and energy stability, were addressed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Trump administration has released a official readout on the Geneva peace talks. Rubio, Envoy Witkoff, Kushner, and Driscoll met with Ukraine’s delegation to review the peace deal. Ukraine confirmed that its key concerns, security, sovereignty, economic recovery, and energy stability, were addressed.
Affordability as Shiloh and Epstein as Antietam: wht Trump is losing the Civil War.
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Opinion | Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition
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November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Affordability as Shiloh and Epstein as Antietam: wht Trump is losing the Civil War.
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Opinion | Trump Is Down Again. His Way Back Up This Time Is Not So Clear.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Friedman on the distinction between a "dirty deal" and a "filthy deal".
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Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Friedman on the distinction between a "dirty deal" and a "filthy deal".
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Thank you, @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, for going beyond "don't obey illegal orders" to help decipher what orders actally are illegal.
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Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
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November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thank you, @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, for going beyond "don't obey illegal orders" to help decipher what orders actally are illegal.
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The "Epstein class":
"[T]here is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good."
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"[T]here is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good."
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The "Epstein class":
"[T]here is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good."
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"[T]here is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good."
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"[T]he Pentagon stat[ed] that US 'contractors' had placed signs beside the Rio Grande, marking 'National Defense Area III'....The Pentagon added that the contractors would work with 'appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future.' ”
This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)
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‘Restricted’: Did US troops try to cordon off a Mexican beach?
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"[T]he Pentagon stat[ed] that US 'contractors' had placed signs beside the Rio Grande, marking 'National Defense Area III'....The Pentagon added that the contractors would work with 'appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future.' ”
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
This love fest between Frank and Bret doesn't do either of them any good.
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Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card
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November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This love fest between Frank and Bret doesn't do either of them any good.
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Ross Douthat and Yoram Hazony both stumble around blindly in their desperate efforts to demonstrate why antisemitism on the Right is not a fundamental problem for the future of national conservatism.
Good luck with that!
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Good luck with that!
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Opinion | It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
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November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ross Douthat and Yoram Hazony both stumble around blindly in their desperate efforts to demonstrate why antisemitism on the Right is not a fundamental problem for the future of national conservatism.
Good luck with that!
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Good luck with that!
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A real attempt to boost Hochul's image by dubbing her the balanced center between Trump and Mamdani.
We'll see.
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We'll see.
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Opinion | How to Resist a Populist Mayor and a Populist President
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November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A real attempt to boost Hochul's image by dubbing her the balanced center between Trump and Mamdani.
We'll see.
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We'll see.
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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social looks at various legal issues besetting the Trump administration in various cases, and demonstrates that the thread connecting them all is the utter incompetence of Trump appointees.
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Opinion | The Comey Case Is Now Officially a Comedy of Errors
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November 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social looks at various legal issues besetting the Trump administration in various cases, and demonstrates that the thread connecting them all is the utter incompetence of Trump appointees.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
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I think David misses the point--a lot of points.
"The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you. But they didn’t see you . . ."
Epstein is not a metaphor for elites blindly and blithely punishing the masses.
cont'd
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"The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you. But they didn’t see you . . ."
Epstein is not a metaphor for elites blindly and blithely punishing the masses.
cont'd
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Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I think David misses the point--a lot of points.
"The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you. But they didn’t see you . . ."
Epstein is not a metaphor for elites blindly and blithely punishing the masses.
cont'd
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"The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you. But they didn’t see you . . ."
Epstein is not a metaphor for elites blindly and blithely punishing the masses.
cont'd
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A rational analysis of US-China relations that threads a path between "China is poised to take over world leadership" and "China is doomed to fail".
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Opinion | America Is Setting a Trap for Itself
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November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A rational analysis of US-China relations that threads a path between "China is poised to take over world leadership" and "China is doomed to fail".
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With these words, Sarah Hurwitz has done more to set back the Zionist cause than a thousand Palestinian witnesses.
It was not wrong to draw from the Holocaust the lesson that one should side with the weak and defenseless against the powerful attackinng them?
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It was not wrong to draw from the Holocaust the lesson that one should side with the weak and defenseless against the powerful attackinng them?
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Top Dem Speechwriter Says Young Jews' Empathy for Gaza Shows Holocaust Education Has Backfired | Common Dreams
"Holocaust education is too successful, it made the kids anti-holocaust while Israel is trying to do one," quipped one prominent critic.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With these words, Sarah Hurwitz has done more to set back the Zionist cause than a thousand Palestinian witnesses.
It was not wrong to draw from the Holocaust the lesson that one should side with the weak and defenseless against the powerful attackinng them?
www.commondreams.org/news/sarah-h...
It was not wrong to draw from the Holocaust the lesson that one should side with the weak and defenseless against the powerful attackinng them?
www.commondreams.org/news/sarah-h...
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Russ Vought is openly admitting this nomination is a front so he can stay on at the CFPB while he tries to shut it down.
Instead of lowering costs for Americans, Trump and Vought want to make it easier for giant corporations to scam families out of their money.
Instead of lowering costs for Americans, Trump and Vought want to make it easier for giant corporations to scam families out of their money.
Trump picks new CFPB director amid efforts to close agency
The nomination of Stuart Levenbach was a "technical" maneuver intended to extend White House budget director Russ Vought's oversight of the agency.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Russ Vought is openly admitting this nomination is a front so he can stay on at the CFPB while he tries to shut it down.
Instead of lowering costs for Americans, Trump and Vought want to make it easier for giant corporations to scam families out of their money.
Instead of lowering costs for Americans, Trump and Vought want to make it easier for giant corporations to scam families out of their money.
Ross tries hard to sound professorial and wise and above-the-fray, but his conclusion is very mush-mouthed:
cont'd
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cont'd
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Opinion | What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?
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November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ross tries hard to sound professorial and wise and above-the-fray, but his conclusion is very mush-mouthed:
cont'd
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cont'd
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Edsall provides evidence and testimony to demonstrate that the rise of open antisemitism on the right is a five-alarm fire.
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Opinion | Who’s Afraid of Tucker Carlson? I Can Think of Two People.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Edsall provides evidence and testimony to demonstrate that the rise of open antisemitism on the right is a five-alarm fire.
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Very noble, to prioritize care for the victims over gloating over their abusers, but it is precisely the deference shown the abusers that has prevented the vindication of the victims.
May the reversal of the one lead to the triumph of the other.
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May the reversal of the one lead to the triumph of the other.
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Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
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November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Very noble, to prioritize care for the victims over gloating over their abusers, but it is precisely the deference shown the abusers that has prevented the vindication of the victims.
May the reversal of the one lead to the triumph of the other.
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May the reversal of the one lead to the triumph of the other.
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You can count on @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social to call out Israeli settlers (and the government that empowers them), American neonazis (and the government figures that protect them), and Hamas ghouls (and the progressives that megaphone them), all in one column.
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Opinion | On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice
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November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
You can count on @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social to call out Israeli settlers (and the government that empowers them), American neonazis (and the government figures that protect them), and Hamas ghouls (and the progressives that megaphone them), all in one column.
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Just a reminder that through columnists like Jamelle Bouie, who have a pretty clear take on Trump and MAGA, the Times has not entirely abandoned the side of the angels.
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Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
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November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just a reminder that through columnists like Jamelle Bouie, who have a pretty clear take on Trump and MAGA, the Times has not entirely abandoned the side of the angels.
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
Always glad to see this--vehicle of my Broadway debut, albeit as an audience speller--revived!
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‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Review: A Delightful Competition
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Always glad to see this--vehicle of my Broadway debut, albeit as an audience speller--revived!
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